Publications by authors named "E M Yow"

Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) occurs in nearly 350,000 people each year in the United States (US). Despite advances in pre and in-hospital care, OHCA survival remains low and is highly variable across systems and regions. The critical barrier to improving cardiac arrest outcomes is not a lack of knowledge about effective interventions, but rather the widespread lack of systems of care to deliver interventions known to be successful.

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Oral microbiota associate with diseases of the mouth and serve as a source of lung microbiota. However, the role of oral microbiota in lung disease is unknown. To determine associations between oral microbiota and disease severity and death in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF).

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Background: Antifibrotics are effective in slowing FVC decline in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). However, whether antifibrotic type is differentially associated with FVC decline remains inconclusive.

Research Question: Are there significant differences in 12-month FVC decline between pirfenidone and nintedanib?

Study Design And Methods: A post hoc analysis was performed using the Clinical Efficacy of Antimicrobial Therapy Strategy Using Pragmatic Design in IPF (CleanUP-IPF) trial (No.

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Importance: Guidelines recommend deferral of testing for symptomatic people with suspected coronary artery disease (CAD) and low pretest probability. To our knowledge, no randomized trial has prospectively evaluated such a strategy.

Objective: To assess process of care and health outcomes in people identified as minimal risk for CAD when testing is deferred.

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Article Synopsis
  • A recent clinical trial tested a new coronary computed tomography angiography (cCTA) strategy, aimed at improving efficiency for patients with stable chest pain compared to traditional stress testing methods.
  • The trial, involving over 2000 participants from North America and Europe, assigned patients to either a precision strategy (PS) using risk assessment for testing decisions or usual testing (UT), which included stress tests.
  • Results showed that the PS group had significantly lower rates of unnecessary catheterizations and better efficiency outcomes than the UT group, indicating that the new approach could enhance patient care.
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